---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001857154-25-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DNUT"
cik: "0001857154"
company_name: "Krispy Kreme, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T08:23:31.913963+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Krispy Kreme nominates four new directors including Hees; six incumbents not renominated

## Summary
- New nominees: Bernardo Hees (ex-Kraft Heinz CEO), Patrick Grismer, Easwaran Sundaram, Gordon von Bretten.
- Six incumbent directors not renominated: Olivier Goudet, David Bell, Paul Michaels, Debbie Roberts, Philip Telfer, Michelle Weese.
- Annual meeting scheduled June 17, 2025; shareholders vote on nine-member board.
- Hees expected to chair new Strategy & Operating Committee; has personally invested in DNUT common stock.
- Refresh aims to support transformation into 'better and bigger' Krispy Kreme with profitable U.S. expansion.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001857154-25-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DNUT
- cik: 0001857154
- company_name: Krispy Kreme, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1857154/000185715425000056/0001857154-25-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1857154/000185715425000056/dnut-20250423.htm

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